Eat 30 plants a week?

Barleyfields

Do weeds count?

Does weed count?

RosiesMaw2

Oh dear @ M0nica - only a bit of fun 🤣🤣

I did realise that, but I was just illustrating just how silly it is when anyone on a normal mixed diet can do half of it in one day without even trying.

All these dramatic new nutrition plans are all so much BS, mainly a scheme to make money out of the gullible.

The idea is to eat 30 different plants a week, not a straight forward total of 30.

I will have had 19 by the time I go to bed tonight -20 if wine counts …. Off to check 😀

It is research based Tizliz, the American Gut Project.
www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/plant_points_explained

Hope all goes well, Whiff.

I have eaten 9 in 2 meals today. Easy peasy

Is this a proven fact that it is good for you or is it just a marketing ploy?

Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall has a book, out last year, and recipes for how to achieve the 30 per week. I’ve been doing it, and there are remarkably few expensive or exotic ingredients, provided you’ve got a freezer. It makes sense to me to eat a very varied diet, he does a big salady thing to incorporate them all daily, but I just ring the changes so I get them in over the week.

Here’s the list in case anybody wants to have a go.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/superpages/cookery/how-to-eat-30-plants-a-week-printable-sheets/

Indigo8

I told my GS about eating 30 plants a week and he went into my conservatory, where there are several plants and said "Be afraid, be very afraid".

😂😂

Whiff

RosiesMaw that made me laugh. Had heart attack on Monday moved to other other hospital for stent or stents fitted probably tomorrow.

Oh Lord Whiff! Everything crossed for a very speedy recovery! 💐

Every best wish Whiff. 🤞 💐

Whiff

RosiesMaw that made me laugh. Had heart attack on Monday moved to other other hospital for stent or stents fitted probably tomorrow.

Sorry to hear that, Whiff

Hope your treatment is successful and you are soon recovered.

RosiesMaw that made me laugh. Had heart attack on Monday moved to other other hospital for stent or stents fitted probably tomorrow.

Hilarious Rosiesmawr...

Dark chocolate is allowed so just stand by the aspidistra holding a bar of Green & Black's and it will know there is no contest.

@RosiesMaw, 😂😂

Re the plant intake, though, at the mo I have a ‘dustbin’ soup simmering on the hob, containing onions, potato, carrot, swede, celery, parsley, pearl barley, yellow lentils - a few cut up sprouts and a leek to go in for the last few minutes.
So that’s 10.
Not sure where another 20 are going to come from…

Indigo8

I told my GS about eating 30 plants a week and he went into my conservatory, where there are several plants and said "Be afraid, be very afraid".

😂 😂 😂

That’s good. I have plenty to hand, unfortunately … whether I would enjoy them is another matter.

I think my Venus Fly Trap is safe!

Barleyfields

Do weeds count?

Nettles and dandelions do. I'm sure there are plenty of others...

I find it harder in winter to eat 30+ different plants a week,(less in the garden) - in summer a good Mediterranean style salad with lots of different leaves, seeds and veg will bump up the variety.

Needed a laugh, rosies. Thank you. My houseful of houseplants need to watch it, especially the (edible) begonia!

I do eat a lot of vegetables but feel this is targeting the wrong demographic. Eating lots of fancy tropical fruit, etc., can be very expensive.

I notice M&S have a range of Brain Food.

Do weeds count?

That's a cactus by the way!

😆 beware Gransnetters! 🌵 😠